Frida: Cannot spawn iOS via USB (FBSOpenApplicationErrorDomain error 1.)

Created on 5 Dec 2018 · 5Comments · Source: frida/frida

I cannot spawn an app on iOS 10.3.1 with Frida via USB. I get always a "FBSOpenApplicationErrorDomain error 1":

$ frida -U --no-pause -f ph.telegra.Telegraph
     ____
    / _  |   Frida 12.2.26 - A world-class dynamic instrumentation toolkit
   | (_| |
    > _  |   Commands:
   /_/ |_|       help      -> Displays the help system
   . . . .       object?   -> Display information about 'object'
   . . . .       exit/quit -> Exit
   . . . .
   . . . .   More info at http://www.frida.re/docs/home/
Failed to spawn: unable to launch iOS app: The operation couldn’t be completed. (FBSOpenApplicationErrorDomain error 1.)

Attaching to a process works fine, though.

Setup:

iPhone 5
iOS 10.3.1
h3lix Jailbreak
Frida 12.2.26 (both, server and client)

Source

raymontag

Most helpful comment

I faced the same problem on an Apple iPhone 5c running iOS 10.3.3 jailbroken using h3lix-RC5. The first release of re.frida.server32 which poses this issue is 12.0.4.

Working setup:

frida 12.3.1
frida_tools 1.2.3
re.frida.server32 12.0.3

You can get older versions of frida32 from https://build.frida.re/debs/

sebastiaanv3 on 5 Feb 2019

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Did you try moving the frida-server binary to /usr/sbin?

oleavr on 6 Dec 2018

I think it's because iPhone5 is an armv7 device, for which spawning apps is currently broken.

mrmacete on 6 Dec 2018

@mrmacete Ah yes, you're right – that's definitely the issue here.

oleavr on 6 Dec 2018

Thank you for clarification! Is it known why Frida cannot spawn processen on armv7?

raymontag on 6 Dec 2018

I faced the same problem on an Apple iPhone 5c running iOS 10.3.3 jailbroken using h3lix-RC5. The first release of re.frida.server32 which poses this issue is 12.0.4.

Working setup: